VI-11 Ordinis Sexti Tomus Undecimus - (Opera Omnia Desiderii Erasmi - Erasmus, Opera Omnia) by Silvana Seidel Menchi & Carlo Martino Lucarini

About the Book

This volume brings together editions of many of the accompanying texts of Erasmus' New Testament editions, including the Methodus, the Apologia and the title pages. The introduction places the texts in their fascinating historical context.

Book Synopsis

After the first edition, Erasmus brought several new editions of his Novum Testamentum, with an ever-changing collection of paratexts. This volume brings together editions of many of the accompanying texts of Erasmus' New Testament editions, including the Methodus, the Apologia, the Brief of and the dedication to Pope Leo X, the lists of corrections and misunderstandings of the critics of the Novum Testamentum, and the title pages. The introduction places the texts in their fascinating historical context. It shows that both a personal crisis of Erasmus and a crisis of his time partly shaped these paratexts.

About the Author

Silvana Seidel Menchi (Florence, 1938) studied Early Modern History in Florence with Delio Cantimori and in Basel with Werner Kaegi. She has held professorhips at the universities of Trento and Pisa. She has worked extensively both on Erasmus and on marriage in Early Modern Europe.

Carlo M. Lucarini (1976) teaches classical philology at the University of Palermo. He has published five Greek Teubner editions, and wrote on the genesis of the Homeric hymns and other classical authors. He is a member of the Academia Europaea.